Daniel Boone Elementary School
Gustavo soto & Gwendolyn Terry
If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow: and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here either. So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
Big idea:
Mixing
Inquiry question:
What does combining things together do?
Questions:
1. What is mixing and a mixture?
2. What’s the impact on the materials involved and
are they affected?
3. How do you see yourself ‘mixing’? How does affect you? Does it alter your form or behavior?
Outcomes:
1.creating various mixtures that touch in on all 3 states of matter.
2.students will design and make individual mixtures of materials, chosen by them, that reflect their own thoughts and feelings regarding how ‘Mixing in’ impacts them.
3. the students will design and exhibit their mixtures which will be designed to be seen from their windows.
Discussions:
A. Micro/Macro
When we look at materials through a micro and macro lense, relationships between materials that create mixtures can be seen and new unobserved forms and insight into how they're intra connected can emerge.
power of Ten * https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
B. Think of yourself as if you‘re the Earth
Your family, friends, school, and larger community, are the raw materials that make you. Describe what material(s) would represent them and the impact they’d have on YOU as a planet.
Examples of water: oceans, waterfalls, lakes, rivers, rain, snow, hail, etc.
Air: clouds, storms, tornados, the Aurora Borealis, etc.
Earth: land, mountains, cliffs, deserts, forest, jungle, etc.
Fire: volcanos, wildfires, sunlight, Etc.
life from above* https://www.pbssocal.org/programs/life-from-above/clips/
Universal net* https://youtu.be/32qqEzBG9OI
In the Heaven of Indra, there is said to be a network of pearls, so arranged that if you look at one you see all the others reflected in it. In the same way each object in the world is not merely itself but involves every other object and in fact IS everything else. In every particle of dust, there are present Buddhas without number.
The similarity of this image to the Hadron Bootstrap is indeed striking. The metaphor of Indra's net may justly be called the first bootstrap model, created by the Eastern sages some 2,500 years before the beginning of particle physics.
-Sir Charles Eliot
You are INDRA:
You are a world made up of all things around you. Those things are your family, friends, school, clubs, organizations, community, places you go, your neighborhood, your city(s), your country(s) ect. Some of these things you may like and some you may not, but, they symbolically represent the substances that make your universe. Your planet doesn’t have to be round, it may be formed more like a molecule. It’s your choice because this represents your world BUT it will be created by the MIXTURE created by you and the materials we’ve supplied and you’ve collected.
These mixtures will make the forms that represent the raw material of your world. It’s end up like some of the things you expect but don’t be surprised if it becomes different then what you expected.
Your Materials:
1. fuzzy pipe cleaners,
2. celluclay
3. Yarn
4. Glue
5. Paint
6. Long toothpicks
7. Cotton balls
8. Balloons
9. Plastic shipping pillow
STEP 1
Your list of “substances”
Make a list of your substances: Family, friends, community(s), city(s), country(s), places you go, things you may do. Then divide them up. First the ones you group as overall positive then those that are challenging/difficult for you . Things are not all good or bad so if somethings both, that’s ok, just put a check and a minus next to it.
Step 2
What are your substances like?
DISCUSSION: What were the things that were both good and bad for you? why? Are some things unmixable?
Step 3
Materials
The materials you choose should reflect your words.
Step 4
Form
What is a form? shape = personality
Step 5
Texture
What is texture? texture = personality
Step 6
Color
What is color? color = impact, mood, relationship
Student Samples
Students Samples
Student Samples
